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Is your home at risk!?!?

Lost_Soul

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I could not beleive this as I read it!
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It seems to only be in CT, but it could be in other places too!

Unbeleivable!!!
 
Lost_Soul said:
I could not beleive this as I read it!
(broken link removed)


It seems to only be in CT, but it could be in other places too!

Unbeleivable!!!

ridiculous
 
I heard this on the radio this A.M. but I thought I didn't hear right. This is sad and giving the government much to mch power. I do hope at least, they were very will paid for giving up their home!
 
Florida is prone to that as well. I live in one of the fastest growing counties in the whole nation. We have on the news stories of these older people who have lived in their house on their huge piece of land for many many years who are being forced out. They get crazy offers of like 1 million dollars for their land but they don't budge. I don't blame them, to a point. It's not about the money, it's just the principle of it.
 
Something simular to this happened here, they were building a industrial site of some sort, (shopping centre I think by memory), everyone apart from 1 old lady sold, at a very reasonable price but this lady refused and lived there literally on the airport grounds for years, she was offered about 6 or 7 times what the house was worth but she stayed put. Then she started complaining about the noise etc but in the end she sold for some sanity and sold for alot less than the origonal offer. If I had a house worth 300k and was offered 1.5mill, who wouldn't take it.. its a oppertunity to have financial freedom, or atleast it would be for me. (its only a house)
 
Oooh. I am in CT. I know where this is happening. It's ridiculous.
 
why would they even think of doing something like this. Driving people out of house and home just for a shopping mall or something thats dumb.
 
It may be dumb and ridiculous (that I have to totally agree on) but if someone is willing to park a dump truck load of money in your yard for your property, I don't know many who wouldn't take it. Like guineagurl said if you have a house worth .25 mil and someone offers you a million or more as in some of these cases, you would likely take it. You could have another house built exactly the way you want and still have money left over. And these days if you have children, the cost of college is just to high to pass on it. I for one would give up my house and land for a million if it meant a guarantee my son could go to college with little financial aid to pay back. It would be a totally different story if they just can take your house with little or no compensation though as that can be financial disastrous. Usually when this happens, you would at least get fair market value for your home. I can understand both sides of the argument. Whether we like it or not, growth happens. Farmland is slowly going away in many areas. Unfortunately, life is progress and where would we be without it; not on cavy cages forum for sure because without progress, we wouldn't have puters, internet, etc. Heck even electric and running water is progress over many of our ancestors. And houses have come a long way--look at all the neat gadgets we have these days. My greatgrandparents still had an outhouse that they used well into the 90's. Sure they had a bathroom with running water but it just wasn't what they were used to. It was only there for the children when they came along.
 
It dosn't say anything about compensating for the property. I know from experience that they will never offer you anything over the value of the property.
 
This is affecting people in Virginia too, waterfront properties are being destroyed so Norfolk can build offices and upscale housing. The sad thing is that home values are sky rocketing and many people will not be able to afford the same type of housing that they now live in. We bought our house three years ago; but if we had to buy it today, we couldn't afford it.



slap_maxwell said:
It dosn't say anything about compensating for the property. I know from experience that they will never offer you anything over the value of the property.
 
could it happen on Cape Cod!? Because here on that Cape its pretty good on having no big industrial size places.
 
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